Real Steel

In the best films about boxing, the fighter who suffers and struggles is the one we see loosing after some time. In the best films of this subgenre there is a tasty conversation between the boxer and his manager down the hall, usually a conversation that happens in the background. Those films give their character an extra motivation to continue to become the champion they want or need to be. There are hits, money, sweat, violence and lots of excitement in this one.

Rudy

When you love football since childhood more than anything else, when you don't have the desired body for this sport and you play with team mates who are a body and half taller.

When your family, friends and everyone laugh when they hear you talk about dreams and goals, when they say and repeat that you are not worth what you want and you're a fool... When this happens, you will find yourself faced with the same story and life of Daniel E. Ruettiger,aka "Rudy".

Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot narrates a simple story: an 11 year old boy, born among a mining family in England, discovers, unexpectedly, his passion for ballet and decides, despite a hostile environment, that he wants to dance.

Billy's family has not only overcome a series of unfortunate events, like the death of the mother for example, but they do also face a long miners' strike: the one that took place in 1984.

Moneyball

Aaron Sorkin's scripts tend to be synonymous of quality and indisputable sharpness and we have examples of it both on television, with the acclaimed "The West Wing of the White House”, and in the magnificent film script he wrote for “The Social Network”. In “Moneyball”, he co-wrote the script in collaboration with Steven Zailian (adapting it from the book by Michael Lewis by the same title). He leads us into the world of professional baseball through a character who lived beyond the sport, without caring about the economic impact that it could have on him and who believed in the possibility of using other methods to make a good team without spending millions in order to succeed.

Because sport movies are better

Sport is the last thing on my mind: it is the last on my priority scale, I have a hard time understanding what the fuss about it is, why there is so much money in it and so on and so forth. And yet, when it comes to sport movies, I am the biggest fan. Maybe everyone needs a certain amount of sport adrenaline in their lives, but given that I am not an admirer of real sweat, I need to fall back on the romantic version of it: namely, sport movies.

Warrior

If we review recent year films we will not find much about boxing. Often, sport themed movies typically are used as an excuse to present an historical context or as an explanation of the characters background; but in any case we do not have many true films about fights.